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Tom Brokaw: Greatest Generation
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Tom Brokaw's follow-up to his original Greatest Generation special. In this documentary, a woman whose father died piloting a bomber over Europe is visited by Brokaw and shares family snapshots and a home movie of the father she never knew. Research into her father's fatal mission led her to survivors from his crew, and the camera follows as she meets elderly veterans who tell her firsthand of her father's heroism.
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Overview: “The title of Tom Brokaw's ‘Boom! Voices of the Sixties’ suggests another ‘generations’ book, an account of baby boomers creating the 1960s and vice versa. But it isn't -- not exactly. For Brokaw, ‘Boom!’ refers not to boomers but rather to explosive differences before and after the decade's ‘volcanic center’ of 1968.”
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TOM Brokaw (above) is a man of his word. When the legendary NBC anchor ditched the U.S. Marine Corps Ball a year ago so he could attend a White House dinner for Prince Charles and Lady Camilla, he promised to make it up to the disappointed leathernecks. And he did. Brokaw - a hero to men of a certain age for writing "The Greatest Generation" - showed up at Capitale this year, the Corps' 231st birthday. He discussed the flap over his no-show that we first reported and got a laugh when he said, "I demand to be kept out of Page Six."
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An article on the Brokaw name by Dennis Brokaw sheds some light on Tom Brokaw's possible interest in writing a book such as the "Greatest Generation". Is there a possible reflection on the travails of his ancestors? What follows is a direct quote from the Dennis Brokaw article. The apparent name of the original Bokaw was Broucard.
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Since his retirement from the anchor seat, Tom Brokaw has produced specials for NBC, including 2001’s The Greatest Generation Speaks based on his bestselling book, The Greatest Generation. He lives on a ranch in Montana with his wife since 1962, Meredith. The couple has three daughters.
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Brokaw explained his reasons for writing the book in a 1999 commencement address he gave at the California Institute of Technology. During the economic crisis of the 1930s, he told the graduating seniors, "youngsters quit school to go to work - not to buy a car for themselves or a new video game. They quit to earn enough to help their family get through another week." When America entered World War II in 1941, some 12 million Americans served in uniform either at home or overseas, and life for civilians was drastically altered as well. Brokaw reminded his CalTech audience of just how young these senior citizens were at the time, noting that "at a time in their lives when their days should have been filled with the rewards of starting careers and families, their nights filled with love and innocent adventure, this generation was fighting for survival - theirs and the worlds." Their spirit and their values, he asserted in his book, were the foundation for the postwar economic boom.
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